Neutron started it.
This is an awful picture of me with my first car. It was taken in 1975. The car was an Austin A40 registration AOK104B (Anji’s OK) called Bertha. I had to let her go in the end because she wouldn’t pass her MOT (Ministry of Transport Test).
This is an awful picture of me with my first car. It was taken in 1975. The car was an Austin A40 registration AOK104B (Anji’s OK) called Bertha. I had to let her go in the end because she wouldn’t pass her MOT (Ministry of Transport Test).
The photo is at a funny angle because my boyfriend at the time thought he was David Bailey (remember him?).
How about your first car?
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My first car was a 1952 Vauxhall Velox. I had this when I first met my wife at a Dance in Tamworth, Staffs. Thinking I was a 'Big Wheel" I offered to take her home after the dance ended. She lived in Lichfield some 15 Miles away. To get there you passed through a village called Hopwas. Here there was a very humpy backed bridge. My wife to be warned me of this but I was 19. I hit the bridge at 60 miles an hour. After we landed we found that the cooling fan had bounced through the radiator. This was 1:00am. I truck driver stopped and his advice was to put some 'Hossmuck' in it to seal it up. As the hole was 12 inches in diameter, that didn't work. There is more to this story and stories about the car. However we are still married after 41 years. We always kept a ball of string in the car after that, just in case.
Those were the days....
I don't think I've come across a bridge like that here in our part of France but I knew several in Worcestershire!
I can't help wondering how you explained your way of of that to your wife's parents.
My father-in-law never spoke to me for 3 years, we actually eloped to Valletta, Malta, and got married at St Pauls Anglican Cathedral by the Reverend Pope the day after my wifes 21st birthday. If we want to impress people, we tell them we got married in St Pauls, by the Pope. The Cathedral often features in advertisments for tourism in Malta. Oh, and by the way, I have bought a snorkel for the hedgehog just in case.
Tony; this is exactly what you should be blogging about! Have you started yet? next time I see an ad for Malta I shall look out for 'your' cathedral.
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